TAKING OUT STAINS

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 196, 21 August 1935, Page 14

TAKING OUT STAINS

Try covering an ink stain on white linen with a paste of mustard, using water to mix it. Allow it to soak well into the material and then wasli in warm soapy water, rubbing the stain well. Unless the ink is of a special make the marks should disappear completely. Rub white material which has been scorched by a too-hot iron with half a cut ourn. Wash in the ordinary .way, and, if any trace of the brown mark remains, soak in lukewarm water and rub the stain with a cake of ordinary laundry soap. Hang out in the sun, and repeat the process until the scorch mark is removed. Soak a cloth stained by strong tea in lukewarm water to which two teaspoonsful of borax have been added. Leave until the water is quite cold, wash with hot soapy water, boil, and hang in the open air. If linen has become mildewed wash and boil it. and then rub the marks well with soap, using sufficient to make the material quite stiff with lather. Choose a sunny day and lay the utained article out of doors, flat, in the sun. If it can lie on grass for several hours so much the better. "Wash again and boil, repeating the process until the marks have been removed. Mildew stains are particularly stubborn and a good deaL of patience is needed to restore linen marked in this way to its former condition.